Postmaster Cuts Hours Over Low Pay
Seattle's post office will close earlier as the postmaster struggles with inadequate funding to support his staff.
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Postmaster Sampson gives notice that the office will hereafter close at 7 o'clock p.m. He assigns as the reason for this curtailment of the hours, the inadequacy of his compensation to enable him to employ sufficient clerical help. He will discharge one clerk and accommodate the public to the best of his ability. It is to be hoped the next Congress may do something to relieve the overworked and underpaid postmasters in this section.
“He assigns as the reason for this curtailment of the hours, the inadequacy of his compensation to enable him to employ sufficient clerical help.”
Postmaster Sampson's complaint about 'inadequacy of compensation' and 'overworked' staff mirrors the recurring civic struggle over the funding of essential public infrastructure, a conversation that persists in Seattle's budget battles today.
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